1- Introduction

The Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program's mission is to establish, fund and integrate both individual and multiagency research efforts that will lead to improved prevention, detection and treatment of PH/TBI.

2 - Scope of the call

The aim of the Community Partners in Mental Health Research Award is to support research on the causes, development and innovative treatment of mental health, substance use disorders, TBI, and suicide prevention in individuals, family members and caregivers. The program´s focus is on research only; proposed projects should not include other treatment, education or outreach efforts.

Research project should be carried out by or in collaboration with community partners (private non-profit organisations or institutions engaged in the research on the causes, development or innovative treatment; identification and dissemination of evidence-based treatments; and/or outreach and education for mental health, substance use disorders, TBI and suicide prevention. Research projects may focus on any phase of the research from basic laboratory research through translational research, including preclinical studies in animal models and human subjects, as well as correlative studies associated with an existing clinical trial.

Applied research that refines concepts and ideas into potential solutions with a view toward evaluating technical feasibility of behavioural and rehabilitation interventions, diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, clinical guidance, emerging approaches and technologies, promising new products, and/or pharmacologic agents is particularly encouraged. Research involving human subjects and human anatomical substances is permitted; however this award may not be used to conduct clinical trials.

3 - Eligibility

PIs at or above the level of Assistant Professor (or equivalent) are eligible to submit applications. Cost sharing/matching is not an eligibility requirement. Eligible investigators must apply through an organisation. Organisations eligible to apply include US national, international, for-profit, non-profit, public and private organisations.

4 - Duration and funding

The maximum period of performance is 3 years. The maximum allowable total costs for the entire period of the performance are USD 2.500.000,00.

5 - Application procedure

Submisison is a two-step process requiring both pre-application submission through the US electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal and full-application submission through Grants.gov. PIs must be registered in eBRAP in order to submit a pre-application and receive notification of the status of a pre-application or application.

6 - Deadline

* VHIR deadline is 30/10/2014

* Official deadline is 06/11/2014

7 - More information

More information can be found at LINK